Gary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vcZ5tc0llQ&feature=player_embeddedQuality song.

When I worked in the kiosk, I used to 'do' the entire show out loud. On quiet days of course, not when I had a queue full of customers. And when I was in Stealth, me and my friend used to play the part of Jo Jo and Elmore. I think. Long time ago now. Elmore was easily the best character.

It's a very good ride when it wants to be. It's certainly something I try to get on every visit.

That's pretty good value for a theme park.

- Got bitten on the lip in year 3 or something. Me and a friend were going up for a header and he bit me basically. I have a permanent scar above my top lip.- Had surgery when I was born although it wasn't an injury. I dunno what it was, I have a scar down by my groin however hair covers it up now. - Broke my wrist playing football. Decided to have a go in goal since I used to be quite good, someone took a shot and I tried saving it from an awkward angle. Bent my wrist back and I landed on it funny. In hindsight, I should have let it in since I ended up missing the team's Oxford tour the next day and also my school's tournament in Belgium. Gah.- Another 'non-injury' however I'll tell it nonetheless. I have a bent spine so in 2005 I had surgery on it. I now have a scar from the top of my back to the bottom, including a hole at the top where my scar came open aha, plus a scar on the right hand side of my chest and a scar just below it where I had a chest drain. Lots of scars. Spent hours in surgery, something like half a day, was good stuff though.Otherwise, I've been pretty much accident-free. Watch now as tomorrow I go out and have a serious accident or something.

I'm going to get me a couple of pens when I go on Friday. Meant to pick some up on AP day but never got round to it. £1.80 with AP discount or £1.60?

Aye great night, trip was a little bit eh although it had it's funny moments but the drinks down the pub was fun.

This isn't about me taking a cheap shot at you or anything btw, it's a genuine feeling...not sure how to explain it but just generally comparing ATA and TPM overall, TPM doesn't quite measure up. Definately has the potential too, mind, and for a theme park website that I imagine makes little to no revenue to have survived so long is obviously an achievement in itself.As for the news front, I think at this stage of the season, any news is good news and so no matter how small it is, maybe it's good to get it posted anyway. Or perhaps a 'weekly round-up' style post once a week whilst the news is quiet.

I agree with Boyd. The perfect theme park website, in my opinion, is Towers Almanac. Why there isn't a Thorpe Park version is beyond me, I would seriously consider ATA that to base TPM off of.

Cornetto Soft Caramel...mmm...shame they stopped making them.

DC is often busy the whole day. I remember one day when I was working in Neptunes Ices, and the queue was half way down the stairs constantly, the whole day.

People with epilepsy are advised not to ride X anyway. Besides, my mother has epilepsy and she can still go to gigs with me and my dad, despite all the strobe lighting, and not have any problems.Anyway, regarding the retheme of X, this is what I heard from a rides manager earlier in the year:- 'Ghost train' ride- Family ride- Forwards- The ride will be 'ripped out' and the inside of the pyramid LOWERED a great deal, to increase the size of the ride- Closes in September- No longer 'pitch black', but still a dark rideObviously, things will have changed since then, in fact I've heard the rumours were scrapped altogether. That makes sense with Fishy coming back. I was told this months ago and was assured this was definitely the plan for X. Maybe one day we'll look back at what could have been...

The thing is, though, there's normally always a really long queue on Depth Charge, which shows that it's still fairly popular.

My sister was working in Sweet City (now Quiksilver) when it happened.

Thorpe Park13th August 2006For once, I'd actually planned a trip to Thorpe, rather than just deciding at the last minute.We arrived at the park at around quarter to ten. The Dome was pretty busy, due to the weather, which meant that the park itself was pretty empty. Everything - everything that was open - was walk on. We headed to Depth Charge, for a soaking. Two rides and a good laugh later, we decided to see what else was open.At 10am, the following rides and attractions were closed:Stealth, Nemesis, Zodiac, Detonator and Pirates 4DThat's just a few that I saw. Also noticed Rush on one-swing, as it was all day...maybe some more rides were closed, but two-thirds of the biggun's were down. :(We then headed to Rumba, where we had a fun ride...I got drenched, due to a) the rain, the weight of our boat and c) the waves yay.After that, we went to see if Nemesis was still closed, which it was.Third water ride in a row next, Loggers, which was also walk-on. Had a good ride on that, followed by another good ride each with our own boat (there was five of us).After that, we went on Zodiac, which had now opened.The only time we queued all day was 20 minutes on Colossus, and it was worth every minute. I had a surprisingly good, smooth ride. ;)Then it was time for some grub, so off to BBQ for a rib meal and a pint of fosters...was quite nice, although since they obviously knew me, they piled the bloody lattice fries on. Sorry, but are they trying to fatten me up?Next, I met up with some of the donut girls and we went for another ride on Loggers. Was fun...I was sandwiched between two women, so I'm hardly gonna complain. :PThe weather, at this point, had picked up. I spent up until 2pm with the girls, when they had to go to work. :(I then met up with Danny Boy. Got my single rider wristband and then headed towards Stealth, where we chatted to Jo-Jo-Jamie. Met up with Tina, Dan's mate, and headed to Rumba, for an embarrassing ride with my family. I mean embarrassing, too. Then we headed to Nemesis. This was the last ride of the day for us. The train after mine got stuck at the bottom of the hill, just as the rain started coming down.By 'coming down', I mean bucketing it down. The rain was constant and closed pretty much all of the rides (CCR, SIAT and X stayed open).We headed to Collie to see their photo unit leaking...slightly...which was rather funny. Then came the thunderstorms.I then left Danny Boy to go to OG, where I stayed under shelter annoying...erm...talking to my mate.At 4.30pm, I headed to Canada Creek, since the rain had stopped, and all the info boards said the last train was at 5pm. Little disappointed to learn the last train was at 4pm (I still haven't been able to visit the farm) and that the rain had started lashing down again.At 5pm, Thorpe Park too the decision to close.I waded through the 'puddle' in the Creek (it was one big puddle, so yeah) and headed back to OG. Then went to the pub for a pint before going home.A little disappointed that I never got a ticket to return. I used my dream ticket to get in, but why does that change anything?A few rides were struck by lightening, Stealth and Depth Charge were, as was the train track.Ride Count:Rumba - 3Loggers Leap - 3Depth Charge - 2Zodiac - 1Nemesis Inferno - 1Colossus - 1I had a surprisingly good day, I got to spend a lot of it with my girlfriend, which put me in a good mood I guess, but was embarrassed a lot by my sister and her mates. Particularly the racist one, who was rude to some staff members and some of my mates.I'd have liked to have gone on a few more rides...Rush, Vortex, Quantum, X, CCR and Samurai to name a few, but oh well. Rush had a 50 minute queue at one point, and was probably the busiest ride.

Best music was Rocky Express, before they went and changed it.